National Affairs: Relief at Last

Still the Congress wrangled, all last week, over the relief bills to be
enacted for drought-stricken farmers and the industrial unemployed.
The House wanted to lend the farmers $30,000,000 for feed and seed; the
Senate wanted to lend them $60,000,000.* The Senate insisted that the
farmers be permitted to buy food for themselves as well as their
livestock under the loan; the House thought this would be a dole. On
the $116.000,000 unemployment-relief bill there was disagreement
over: 1) Senator Robinson's amendment taking allotment of sums out of
the President's hands, 2)...